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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. YDB

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

kairosdb.github.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2013

1989

2019

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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